Well, to be perfectly honest, I only had enough money for a book after buying the graphics card. It was sort of like that Christmas story where the wife sells her hair to buy her husband a fob watch chain and the husband sells his watch to buy her a comb.

You sure? The Gift of the Magi is a pretty well-known(and commonly copied and parodied) short story.

Fairly sure. I have a good memory for things like that. Perhaps I've heard a variation, but I can't think of anything like it. Thanks for giving me its name though. Now I can go and google it and hopefully read it!

EDIT: Found a copy online and can safely say I have never heard that story before. It was a good one though!